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Platoon Leader

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The article stated that Nagl had been a platoon commander. I changed to platoon leader, which is the correct US Army terminology. CsikosLo (talk) 12:21, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Update?

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Look, this biography of John Nagl is not objective. Whoever wrote it, wrote it with Nagl's book in mind and his flawed theory on how military organizations learn in war. I have intimate knowledge with the issues involved. It is not a factually correct statement in the bio that suggests Nagl has had huge influence over junior officers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.152.83.69 (talk) 01:14, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Slate.com has written a series of articles the top layer which can be found here:

http://www.slate.com/id/2206041/?from=rss

basically, the point is made that the current defense secretary, Gates, was on board with Lt. Col. Nagl, and indeed, Nagl worked with Gen. Petraeus on the recently completed U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was unhappy to lose Nagl and Slate.com reports that he is back in the Pentagon at the behest of Sec. Gates. Additionally, and unusually, command leaders in the combat field (Iraq), including Gen. Petraeus, and three or four other lower ranking but commanding officers in Iraq were brought back to the US to serve on a promotion board to determine who gets promoted from Col. to brigadier general. The bottom line is the none of the names that appear in this article are on the July 2008 promotion list, which may be found here:

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12069

Can anyone shed any light on this and, at the very least, confirm and update Nagl current position in the Pentagon, if any. It seems like an important point in an article about an Army colonel who resigned more or less in protest and then was brought back in by the Secretary of Defense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.20.188.224 (talk) 23:40, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment

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"near the top of" regarding his time at West Point...seems too open...if he got the top 5%, state it.06:42, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Last edited at 06:42, 14 September 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 20:18, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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